Country Girl

The early years of my life were spent living in a slightly rural setting in Pocatello.  I loved the song of the Meadow Lark in the spring.  And my parents were able to grow a large vegetable garden and raise chickens.  That was the closest I ever came to being a farm girl. 

         

When I turned 6 years old and ready to start school (there was no preschool or kindergarten), the closest elementary school was Washington Elementary and it was twelve blocks away.  Since there was only one car in the family and my Dad needed it to go to work, that meant that I walked.  Yes, I walked twelve blocks in the morning, home again for lunch and back to school, then home again after school.  The reason: we lived to close to eat lunch at school and not far enough away to ride the bus.  So I got my exercise.

Another thought comes to mind about how my mother really cared that her children grew into a positive and happy spirit.  When I was old enough for MIA, we girls had bandalos and we need to come up with symbol to put on our bandalos.  Discussing it with mother, we came up with the idea of "the Bluebird of Happiness", so we worked with some felt and came up with a Bluebird to sew on and represent my symbol.  Since then my mother and I have always had a Bluebird connection.
-Gloria